Her research assesses the price of skills mismatch of immigrant employees, and the subsequent incidence of this mismatch on workers in the labour market. She will spend most of the research time at the Department of Economics and IRiS of University of Birmingham in the UK.
Ozgen holds a part-time position as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Spatial Economics (VU University Amsterdam) and Migration Policy Centre (European University Institute) in Florence. She is a research fellow at IZA. Ceren defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘Impacts of Immigration and Cultural Diversity on Innovation and Economic Growth’ at VU Amsterdam in 2013.
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions offer the opportunity for Experienced Researchers (PhD holders or those with four years of research experience) to secure their own funding via Individual Fellowships to support their research training and career development.